Elaine Chew

Founder | Digital Music Theranostics Lab
Professor of Engineering | King’s College London NMES:Engineering and FoLSM:BMEIS
Invited Researcher | IRCAM Music Representations Team

2026 EHRA Best Innovation in AI and Digital Medicine in Clinical Electrophysiology : Music as a conceptual and digital theranostic tool for cardiac electrophysiology
2026 ERC Public Engagement with Research Award : awarded ‘for a boundary-spanning and truly interdisciplinary approach reaching millions of ears and hearts’ ■■■ More awards
2023 Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year 2023 Award (Art & Science Category) : Breaking the Wall to Musical Medicine [ interview ] ■■■ See recent publications
2024 BBC World Service : Unexpected Elements : Unexpected Oscar for Best Original Music ■■■ See heartbeat music

Coming in 2027 : Isaac Newton Institute Programme on Mathematics, Computation, and Complexity in Music

MIT Alumni Association : Slice of MIT : Music to Make the Heart Sing
BBC One Morning Live : Music Heart Health with Ben Gernon (Contact EC for private link if you cannot view BBC iPlayer)
Los Angeles Philharmonic : Inside the Music : See What You Hear

Music science : Music information research, computational structure analysis, performance science, perception and cognition, music representation
Mathematical science : Data science, visualisation, sonification, mathematical modelling, optimisation, probability & statistics, signal processing
Cardiovascular science : Neurocardiology, autonomic nervous system, time/frequency domain signal analysis, ECG sonification